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Tamara Mellon wishes some people would stop seeing her as a lucky girl who took a clever gamble with a loan from Daddy. Says she: "I keep being asked, 'Haven't you made enough money? Don't you want to stop working?' People would never say that to a man. I'm in my prime right now. This is just the beginning...
Born in Siberia, Khromtchenko moved to Moscow as a young girl and graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in journalism. At 17 she became the youngest broadcaster for Channel 1 radio and television and went on to write for Russian Cosmopolitan and Elle before forming her own p.r. company, which helped launch brands like Gucci and Valentino in Russia. Because of her TV and radio career, Khromtchenko has become famous in Russia. But she says that now, in addition to editing the magazine, she's just a talking head: "If someone wants to know about fashion or beauty...
Carine Roitfeld, editor in chief of French Vogue, told her not to bother. "The Saint Laurent girl doesn't carry a bag," Roitfeld said. "She puts her hands in her pockets." Hermann listened politely to Roitfeld's lecture about that iconic Saint Laurent woman, who wore tuxedos and accessorized with more attitude than jewelry...
...drawn early on to an environment of "quality and beauty," Hermann says. She aimed high for l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), one of Europe's best business schools, but that meant moving to Paris alone at age 16 for a two-year prep course. The girl from the provinces was lonely in the beautiful city and distracted herself on weekends by shopping, she says, "to be out among people...
...Hermann at the house of eccentric wunderkind Galliano in 1996 and eventually at Dior. "We were le carpe and le lapin," she says, laughing at the French image of the classic odd couple, the fish and the rabbit. "He was the British boy, and I was the French bourgeois girl. But we respected the same values...